-
Job Moves: July 12, 2011
Thomson-Shore, a book manufacturer specializing in short to medium run digital and offset book printing, recently expanded its team by hiring Ken Fultz as its v-p of operations and distribution. In his new role, Fultz is charged with aligning company strategy with operations.
-
Authors on the Air July 12, 2011: Dan Savage, Rachel St. John, Glen Duncan
Dan Savage, author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family (Plume, 978-0452287631), will be on The Colbert Report.
Rachel St. John appeared on NPR's Morning Report for her new book, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (Princeton Universtiy Press, 978-0691141541). -
Job Moves: July 11, 2011
Martingale & Company has named Karen Johnson as director of marketing and business development. Most recently, Johnson was with Crafts Americana Group, Inc., as v-p of Connecting Threads.
-
Authors on the Air July 11, 2011: Jaycee Dugard, Sen. Bob Graham, Michael Shermer
Good Morning America aired highlights of Diane Sawyer's interview with Jaycee Dugard, author of A Stolen Life (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451629187).
Senator Bob Graham will appear on Morning Joe, Stand Up with Pete Dominick, and The Bill Press Show for his new book Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, 978-1593156602).
-
Comings and Goings: July 8, 2011
If you've been laid off recently, left your job or landed a new position and would like to pass along your contact information to others in the business, send details to pwletters@publishersweekly.com. Please include your full name and former title/company.
Erin Edmison and Peter Harper have formed Edmison/Harper Literary Scouting, an international literary scouting agency, and have been appointed North American scouts for Les Editions Denoël in France and Verlag Klett-Cotta in Germany as of September 1. They can be reached at erin@edmisonharper.com and peter@edmisonharper.com. -
Authors on the Air July 8, 2011: Stephanie Osborn
On Saturday July 9, Stephanie Osborn will be interviewed on Sector Five Radio, (simocast on http://www.k-talk.com/) KTKK 630AM in Salt Lake City from 8:00-10:00pm CDT. She will talk about her books Burnout (Twilight Times Books, 978-1606192009) and Extraction Point! (Paladin Timeless Books, 978-1606190050).
-
Job Moves: July 8, 2011
At Bloomsbury Cristina Gilbert has been named executive director of U.S. marketing, reporting to Evan Schnittman. Gilbert will manage all U.S. marketing teams including children’s trade and digital, adult trade and digital, academic marketing, marketing operations, children’s publicity, and school & library.
-
Comings and Goings: July 7, 2011
If you've been laid off recently, left your job or landed a new position and would like to pass along your contact information to others in the business, send details to pwletters@publishersweekly.com. Please include your full name and former title/company.
Mark Landau, former v-p, retail/distributor sales at HarperCollins, can now be reached at mark.landau@rocketmail.com. -
Henry Kissinger Talks ‘On China’ at New York Public Library
Henry Kissinger spoke at the New York Public Library on Wednesday in promotion of his new book On China, speaking candidly about his interactions with famous figures. About Mao, Kissinger said: “He would say things like ‘We can afford to lose 300 million people; we will produce faster.’”
-
Authors on the Air July 7, 2011: Lisa Pulitzer and Cole Thompson
Lisa Pulitzer and Cole Thompson, authors of Portrait of a Monster: Joran Van der Sloot, A Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312359218) will appear on Good Day New York.
-
Job Moves: July 6, 2011
Ruta Rimas is joining the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints as associate editor, reporting to Justin Chanda. Rimas is a graduate of NYU and has spent the last three years at HarperCollins working with Donna Bray of the Balzer & Bray imprint.
Copyright Clearance Center has appointed Haralambos Marmanis as chief technology officer and v-p, engineering.
-
Authors on the Air July 6, 2011: Matthew Algeo, Rick Robinson, Lisa Pulitzer, Lauren Myracle, Gene Chizik
On NPR's Morning Edition, Matthew Algeo will discuss The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth (Chicago Review Press, 978-1569763506).
Rick Robinson will appear on Hannity on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday for the "Great American Panel" segment. Robinson is the author of the political thriller Manifest Destiny (Headline Books, 978-0929915357).
-
Obituary: Carol Southern, Renowned Lifestyles Editor
Carol Southern, one-time head of Clarkson Potter, died July 2 in New York, after complications arising from cancer surgery.
-
Authors on the Air July 5, 2011: Richard Mabey, Michael Krasny, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Richard Mabey, author of Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants (Ecco, 978-0062065452) will be on NPR's All Things Considered.
Michael Krasny will be on Tavis Smiley for his book Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest (New World Library, 978-1577319122). -
Carlton Leaves 'Kirkus'
Bob Carlton has stepped down as v-p and publisher of Kirkus Reviews. A spokesperson for the magazine said there are no plans at present to replace Carlton and that his duties will be assumed by others at the company, including president Marc Winkelman.
-
Job Moves: July 1, 2011
Zachary Shuster Harmsworth has announced that Bridget Wagner has joined the firm as an affiliate agent. For six years, Wagner worked as an agent and foreign rights director at The Sagalyn Agency.
Nancy Bryan, an author, publisher, church musician, and Christian education specialist, is the newly appointed editorial director – books & music at Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI), succeeding Frank Tedeschi who retired in April. -
Authors on the Air July 1, 2011: Ellen Prager, Jeffrey Lyons, Earl Swift
Ellen Prager will be on NPR's "Science Friday" to talk about her book Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter (University of Chicago Press, 978-0226678726). On Saturday July 2, Jeffrey Lyons will be on New York Times Close Up/NY1 with Sam Roberts for Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from "The Lyons Den" (Abbeville, 978-0-7892-1102-6).
-

John Glusman Takes Top Editorial Post at Norton
Starling Lawrence, who has been at W.W. Norton since 1969, is taking a different role at the company, and John Glusman, who is currently at Crown, is stepping into the top editorial post at the publisher.
-
Poets Show Their Hearts for Dean Young’s Heart
A series of fundraisers is aiming to raise money to cover author Dean young's medical bills; Young, who has heart problems, has written numerous poetry collections, including the Pulitzer finalist Elegy.
-
Authors on the Air June 30, 2011: Timothy Garton Ash, Lucy Dahl, Alisa Weinstein
Timothy Garton Ash will be on The Colbert Report for Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name (Yale Unversity Press, 978-0300161175). Lucy Dahl, daughter of Roald Dahl, will appear on the Today show for an appearance on Al Roker’s Book Club to discuss James and the Giant Peach, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year.



